Potter (Beatrix) The Pie and the Patty-Pan, first edition, first printing with date on title and mottled lavender endpapers, colour frontispiece and 9 colour plates, plain illustrations in text, some very light scattered spotting, light browning to endpapers, original maroon boards with mounted colour illustration, spine very slightly faded, small patch of staining to head of lower joint, some minor finger-soiling, but still an excellent example, [Linder p.425; Quinby 9], small 4to, 1905.

⁂ Beatrix Potter's favourite of her own works after The Tailor of Gloucester. The illustrations for The Pie and the Patty-Pan, amongst Potter's best and her most fully-worked to date, were closely taken from the cottages and environs of the village of Sawrey.